Pres. Rehires Workers Prior to Renewable Energy Plant Visit - GreenHybrid

Delta Flyer · #1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2006, 09:55 AM

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, is getting back $5 million in funding, so 32 workers can have their jobs back prior to the President's visit.

CNN Story

http://www.nrel.gov/

tanstaafl14 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2006, 12:16 PM

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Bush blamed a budget mix-up for the shortfall at the Golden facility, saying that sometimes when funds are appropriated, "the money may not end up where it was supposed to have gone."

Is a Bushian "budget mixup" any different from a Clintonian "bureaucratic snafu"?

No wonder the Warmonger-in-Chief has become such bosom buddies with the Whoremonger-in-Chief.

In fact, IMO the NREL should be abolished. If you want innovation and fresh ideas, the absolute last place you'll find them is in a nest of govt. bureaucrats.

Let the private sector work its magic. We'll get alternative energy faster and cheaper.

"Everything the government touches turns to crap." -- Ringo Starr

Delta Flyer · #3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2006, 12:24 PM

....but do something!